SAGE Wisdom: An Evening of Healing, Expert Insights, and Community A Benefit
2025-09-30 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | ZOOM EVENT
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SAGE Wisdom: An Evening of Healing, Expert Insights, and Community
You’re invited to a virtual gathering on September 30th to enjoy gentle yoga, hear from a panel of grief and trauma experts, and discover LIGHT’s upcoming events, including a grief retreat, YTT, and professional trainings in Colorado, Springs. This learning benefit raises money for SAGE event scholarships.

Your expert panel are leaders in grief & trauma healing. Don’t miss this time with
Arielle Schwartz, Amy Weintraub, Amy Pickett-Williams, Katie Mattei , PsyD, Joann Lutz, LICSW, E-RYT, C-IAYT, Matthew McKay, PhD, and Wendy Black Stern, C-IAYT.

5:30 – 6pm: Gentle practice to open hearts and bodies.
6-7 pm: Expert panel for wisdom-sharing and inspiration.
7-7:30 pm: Closing panel with LIGHT facilitators to preview SAGE’s diverse offerings.

Tiered pricing options that provide SAGE scholarships to those who need them.
Gentle Chair Yoga to ground and open the evening
Expert Panel with leaders in grief & trauma healing
SAGE Facilitators Panel previewing diverse offerings this December, including a grief retreat, YTT, and professional training
Join us virutally to connect, learn, and experience the power of community.

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway

Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
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Yoga for Depression & Anxiety
2025-11-05 - 2025-11-06
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Nov 5-6, 2025, 9:30am-5:15pm each day.
Hosted in person, livestream and via recording at the beautiful Soul of Yoga in Encinitas, CA.
Yoga for mood works. We live in challenging times and incidence of anxiety and depression, stress and anger are on the rise. We know a steady yoga practice can help us navigate these difficulties and gain emotional resilience. This workshop goes a step further to illuminate specific therapeutic techniques that can shift one’s mood in the moment.
Amy’s compassionate model of therapeutic tools will impact your growth as a teacher and expand your understanding of yoga for emotional health.
Amy will share her evidenced-based protocols in this experiential immersion. Teaching through the lenses of current scientific research, personal experience, and ancient Yogic philosophy, she will illuminate how our nervous system can become stuck, and how we can amplify balance and health.
LifeForce Yoga weaves ancient disciplines with current scientific findings to help you release what no longer serves you and become the agent of your own healing.
Amy’s workshop is part of Soul of Yoga’s 6-day Wellness Training module. Find out more here: https://soulofyoga.com/event/wellness-training/
CEUs available with Yoga Alliance, and Approved Professional Development (APDs) credits with IAYT.

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
amyweintraub.

Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort (free) online
2026-01-14 - 2026-01-17
Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort (free) Online Masterclass
Living with chronic pain and discomfort is exhausting—not just physically, but emotionally.
When you’re in the thick of it, it’s easy to feel isolated, anxious, or even hopeless. You might feel like your world has started to shrink as you say “no” to the things you love, simply because your body feels like it’s stuck in a permanent state of “high alert.”
The truth is, chronic pain often creates a protective feedback loop in the nervous system. While the body can become very skilled at “bracing” for pain, the good news is that your nervous system is incredibly plastic. This means that with the right somatic tools, you can “retrain” your body to move out of survival mode and back into a state of ease.
You don’t have to stay stuck in the cycle of bracing and discomfort.
I have an amazing opportunity to share with you that offers a clear roadmap toward that relief. I highly recommend you join me for this FREE online series from AVAIYA University:
Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort
This online series is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films and online events such as, Overcoming Anxiety & Fear, Breaking Free From Trauma, Healing Your Nervous System, and many more).
Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from 20 somatic experts, doctors, scientists & more:
Heal the “Protection” Response: Understand why “Your Pain Makes Sense” as a nervous system signal and how to transition from a state of bracing to a state of ease.

Release Resistance with Mindfulness: Learn to stop the “second arrow” of suffering by softening your lens and using mindfulness to dissolve the mental struggle against physical discomfort.

Micro-Movements for Macro Relief: Use simple facial movements and daily mindful habits to relieve deep-seated physiological and mental discomfort.

Master the Nervous System “Reset”: Discover how Neurogenic Tremoring and somatic pathways allow your body to naturally shake off stored survival energy and tension.

Stop Fighting Your Symptoms: Shift from fear and frustration to calm curiosity using somatic inquiry to change your literal relationship with physical pain.

The Power of the Breath: Learn specific breath and movement strategies designed to create immediate space and “fluid movement as medicine” for your core.

The Food-Pain Connection: Discover how to reverse chronic disease and inflammation using simple “supermarket foods” and dietary shifts that act as internal medicine.

Quantum Healing & Energy Medicine: Explore Embodied Quantum Osteopathy and Quantum-Touch to transform pain at the energetic and cellular levels.

Targeted Relief for Pelvic Health: Gain specialized somatic tools to address the unique complexities of chronic pelvic pain and tension.

Tapping Into Relief: Master the power of EFT (Tapping) to process the emotional charge often trapped within chronic physical symptoms.

Herbal & Mind-Body Integration: Understand the profound link between the mind and body, and how specific herbs can support the physical recovery process.

Creating Your Pathway to Freedom: Learn to “Wild your Core” and use yoga-based somatic pathways to reclaim your bodily autonomy and move with confidence again.

Join us now for this FREE series & discover the solutions you and your loved ones need to heal.
Will you join us and take the first step toward a more vibrant, comfortable life?
Save your spot right here and start your journey toward relief.
After you register, keep an eye out for AVAIYA’s email for specific details on accessing the expert classes. (Replays will be available for 24 hours after each class airs).

LifeForce Yoga for Depression and Anxiety Accessible Practices to Manage Your Mood
2026-05-12 08:00 - 17:00
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Bahamas Beach Retreat
April 14 – 17, 2027
LifeForce Yoga for Depression and Anxiety
Accessible Practices to Manage Your Mood

Life is short- and it’s time for a Yoga Vacation! Come relax. Be inspired. Activate your heart. Deepen your awareness, and be present to the beauty of nature that surrounds you. It’s especially uplifting to gather in community.
This retreat offers the sweetness of in-person connection in an amazing location to ground and let go. I know you won’t regret a spacious break to restore your connection to Self at the beautiful Sivananda Yoga Ashram in The Bahamas. The beach there opens my heart. Yoga and meditation outside, clean vegetarian meals, the sunsets, the air…. Community kirtan, chanting, and mantras regulate my autonomic nervous system in ways I can’t describe. The tropical fragrance! All of these elements coalesce to remind me of who I truly am beneath whatever story I am telling myself.
I will be speaking and teaching about Yoga for Your Mood. No experience necessary! We’ll practice yoga tools to reset and manage our moods that not only help release what no longer serves our wellbeing, but also provides ways for managing your mood at home. Of course, we’ll practice and play amidst verdant flora, turquoise waters, and sparkling sands! Idyllic Paradise Island is a gorgeous place for nature, yoga, silence, and vibrance. I love it all, and I think you will too.
At my Satsang I will offer offer the scientific evidence that supports yoga as an adjunct treatment for mental health and offer the safe application of the practices for mental health.
Are you thrown off balance by current events, or the actions of others? Do circumstances of daily life disturb your peace and joy? Do you serve others whose moods shift into depression or anxiety? If you checked any or all those boxes, this program is for you.
Learn ways to shift your mood into a steady state of balance and acceptance and general well-being, no matter what life brings. LifeForce Yoga’s accessible formula blends modern science with ancient wisdom for managing depression and anxiety.
You will come away feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and
physical body.
You will come away feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.
This program is accessible for all levels, including beginners. Health professionals and Yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in Yoga classes to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.
Lodging options range from tent huts to beachfront deluxe rooms. Spa services not included but wonderful! I hope you will join me. REGISTER NOW!

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
amyweintraub.com

Extraordinary Yoga Teacher Summit
2026-06-06 - 2026-06-14 | ZOOM EVENT
The Extraordinary Yoga Teacher Summit is a free 9-day online gathering devoted to depth, personal practice, and steady teaching, and I’m honored to be contributing a session.
I said yes because this offering is oriented toward what genuinely sustains yoga teachers — not what performs well. The conversations are grounded, thoughtful, and rooted in the heart of practice.
The summit runs June 6–14, 2026, and is free to attend.
It brings together 30 experienced teachers from many yoga traditions exploring what it means to teach — and live — yoga with integrity over time. Presenters include Lizzie Lasater, Todd Norian, Daniela Hess, Jillian Pransky, Lauren Walker, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Mark Whitwell, Larry Payne, and more.
In my conversation with Daniela Hess, we explore yoga practices — along with modalities like Internal Family Systems (IFS) — that have profoundly transformed my life and work. I also share a few simple practices from my Yoga for Your Mood Deck that can support students experiencing anxiety, depression, and overwhelm.
If you study yoga, teach yoga, or feel called toward this path, I would love for you to join us.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
The Summit begins with a live Zoom “virtual retreat” weekend on June 6–7, with all additional interviews and lessons available on-demand June 8–14.
The line up of teachers and speakers is wonderful- I hope you’ll join us!

Lifeforce Yoga and IFS (Internal Family Systems) Virtual Workshop
2026-06-17 17:00 - 19:30 | virtual
Online Registration

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS Virtual Workshop
A Synergistic Integration to Soothe, Restore and Heal
Wednesday June 17 | 5:00-7:30pm MT
with Amy Weintraub and Laura Schmidt

LifeForce Yoga practices help us access the self-compassion we need to safely down regulate our nervous systems. Internal Family Systems helps us relate to ourselves and others with curiosity, clarity and an open-heart.
Experience how these two healing modalities beautifully integrate through a LFY introduction that blends a gentle, evidence-based, clinically appropriate yoga protocol to help you self-soothe and clear your mind. Through IFS, start to befriend your internal family of parts–the emotions, thoughts and behaviors who protect, manage and react, as well as the tender, hidden young ones who long for protection. Start building a relationship with these parts from the innate source of compassionate presence that is your highest Self.

Through a direct experience of accessible pranayama, meditations, mantras, mudras and IFS practices you’ll start to:

Embody Self energy.
Befriend parts with curiosity and kindness.
Practice yoga skills to manage your mood.
Strengthen a connection between your Self and your parts.
Identify ways to integrate these two healing modalities in your practice.

This introductory workshop is appropriate for yoga and mental health professionals, those on a healing journey, regardless of experience, and anyone curious about IFS and LifeForce Yoga. CE credits are available for yoga professionals.
We encourage participants to attend live. However, the session will be recorded and the replay will be distributed to all registrants.

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance to Your Life
2026-08-09 - 2026-08-14 | Kripalu Center, Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, MA, 01266, United States
Online Registration

LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life
August 9-14, 2026
A Summer Retreat at Kripalu.
We all have a Precious Center. A place within that is unsullied by life’s traumatic events. LifeForce Yoga skills remove restrictions and help us access the compassion we need to explore our wounds with clarity and wisdom. IFS teaches us how to relate to ourselves and others from a place of inclusion, empathy, and curiosity, and the two modalities dovetail beautifully. You will experience the blend of a gentle, evidence-based yoga protocol to help you self-soothe and clear your mind as you work with your IFS parts. The manager parts, reactive parts, and those tender young parts from a place of compassionate self-awareness that is your highest Self.
Is there a worried or depressed part of you that keeps you from seeing clearly? Is there a fearful part of you that prevents you from fully engaging in life and relationships?
Through pranayama, meditations, mantras, and yoga, you will:

Access your Self energy.
Learn skills to manage your mood.
Strengthen the Self to part relationships.
Unblend the parts that take over your internal system.
Safely tend to the protected parts of you that are not yet healed.

Return home feeling refreshed and with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical bodies.
NOTE This program is suitable for all levels including beginners. Psychotherapists, health professionals, and yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help clients focus, relax, and gain greater access to their feelings. CE credits are available for yoga professionals. More information will be provided during the program.
CEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies, including students, yoga therapists, and mental health professionals.
Find more HERE.

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
amyweintraub.com

Laura Schmidt, LMFT
Laura is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in private practice in Spokane, WA. A family systems therapist for over 25 years, she’s deeply committed to supporting healing professionals to become more self-aware, proficient, inclusive and ethical. As an Approved Internal Family Systems (IFS) Clinical Consultant and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, she also leads international online clinical consultation groups, and in-person workshops and retreats. She’s worked with over 250 consultees, spanning 26 countries and 19 time zones in online groups since 2019, and served as sole Faculty Assistant to IFS Founder Dick Schwartz at the Cape Cod Institute in 2021 and 2022.
IFS and Mindful Self Compassion practices also carried Laura through a bewildering decade recovering from an invisible traumatic brain injury and navigating the chronic challenges of another hidden health issue, rheumatoid arthritis. A familiarity with long-term social isolation and remote learning became the catalyst to expand my professional focus to serve a wider, global online community of healing professionals. pausewithlaura.com

Bahamas Beach Retreat 2027: LifeForce Yoga for Depression and Anxiety
2027-04-14 - 2027-04-17 | Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas
Online Registration

Bahamas Beach RetreatApril 14 – 17, 2027LifeForce Yoga for Depression and AnxietyAccessible Practices to Manage Your Mood

Life is short- and self care is important! Come relax. Be inspired. Activate your heart. Deepen your awareness, and be present to the beauty of nature that surrounds you. It’s especially uplifting to gather in community in The Bahamas.
Are you thrown off balance by current events, or the actions of others? Do circumstances of daily life disturb your peace and joy? Do you serve others whose moods shift into depression or anxiety?
If you checked any or all those boxes, this program is for you. Learn ways to shift your mood into a steady state of balance and acceptance and general well-being, no matter what life brings. LifeForce Yoga’s accessible formula blends modern science with ancient wisdom for managing depression and anxiety.

You will come away feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.

This retreat offers the sweetness of in-person connection in an amazing location to ground and let go. I know you won’t regret a spacious break to restore your connection to Self at the beautiful Sivananda Yoga Ashram in The Bahamas. The beach there opens my heart. Yoga and meditation outside, clean vegetarian meals, the sunsets, the air…. Community kirtan, chanting, and mantras regulate my autonomic nervous system in ways I can’t describe. The tropical fragrance! All of these elements coalesce to remind me of who I truly am beneath whatever story I am telling myself.
I will be speaking and teaching about Yoga for Your Mood. No experience necessary! We’ll practice yoga tools to reset and manage our moods that not only help release what no longer serves our wellbeing, but also provides ways for managing your mood at home. Of course, we’ll practice and play amidst verdant flora, turquoise waters, and sparkling sands! Idyllic Paradise Island is a gorgeous place for nature, yoga, silence, and vibrance. I love it all, and I think you will too.At my Satsang I will offer offer the scientific evidence that supports yoga as an adjunct treatment for mental health and offer the safe application of the practices for mental health.
Lodging options range from tent huts to beachfront deluxe rooms. Spa services not included but wonderful! I hope you will join me. REGISTER NOW!

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
amyweintraub.com
